Woman’s €760,000 injury claim dismissed after she admits she won Christmas tree-throwing competition

It's all swings and roundabouts really....

Rockin' around the Christmas tree.

No, but solicitors can waive their fees.

She will have paid all the costs of the reports and here consultant visits and won't reclaim them.

On the hook for the other side's costs but if she has no assets, it little use going after her.

She would have gotten away with it if she went for a lower amount instead of sprucing it up.

Seems weird to dismiss all her injuries, just because she threw a tree.

100% agree that the system is poor for medico legal reporting but, it is fundamentally how doctors are trained and practice every day in non-insurance elements of their work.

You turn up at the GP/Consultant with pain or issue and they will take you at your word and try to find out what ails you - this could take months of testing if the symptoms are not visible. Now, with an insurance claimant they have basically 15 minutes to interview, examine and then report so, they will just repeat what they are told.

The insurers would have obtained their own reports which may have said the complaints are not consistent etc - this is what likely led to the investigations which discovered the tree tossing (unless someone called the fraud hotline and, it dropped in their laps).

It would nearly be worth setting up a PI company to get these investigation contracts off the insurance companies.

The days of sitting in a car for hours or days with a camera are long gone.

This one like so many others were rumbled by a simple google search and a look at her social media.

The vast majority of claims don't end up in court.

In a lot of circumstances people have no choice but to get their solicitor involved because the insurance company is acting the complete bollíx.

Lets not be going down the route of pretending the insurance companies and their billion euro monopoly are the good guys here.

Doctors are still getting paid for the reports.

The vast vast majority of cases don't get near a Judge. Roughly 5% of claims do.

Insurance companies operate in the bounds of what gives them the highest profit margin. They choose to pay out on 75% of claims, the details of this is a guarded secret.

You always hear the stories of people getting high pay outs but never the 1000s who get low balled.

I'm not defending solicitors that are playing the game, but the insurance are fully committed and togged out too.

They blame each other whilst the vast vast majority of people who don't make any sort of fraudulent claim or claim at all have no choice but to pay for the gravy train.

That's not a court. 😕